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Can a girl get genital herpes if her male partner uses a condom and is taking medication?

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Less likely: Condoms should generally protect you from genital herpes being transmitted to you by your partner, but condoms do break, they can leak around the edges, few people use them 100% of the time, and if he performs oral sex on you, you can get it that way.

Dr Ferguson and another doctor agreed

Answered 8/2/2017

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